{"product_id":"9781857543353","title":"Collected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Welsh publishing house Gwasg Gomer published Gillian Clarkes first full collection of poems, \u003cem\u003eThe Sundial\u003c\/em\u003e, in 1978. In the twenty years since then the poet has become one of the best-loved and most widely read writers of Wales, well-known for her readings, for her radio work and her workshops.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eGillian Clarkes poems ring with lucidity and power[...] her work is both personal and archetypal, built out of language as concrete as it is musical, the \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e said. She combines traditional skills with an original voice and outlook, and with a history which includes the unwritten stories of Welsh women. Her \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.carcanet.co.uk\/cgi-bin\/indexer?product=9781857542998\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e has proven one of the most popular volumes of modern Welsh poetry, having gone through seven printings in a dozen years. Her language has a quality both casual and intense, mundane and visionary, the Listener said of \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.carcanet.co.uk\/cgi-bin\/indexer?product=1857549619\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eLetter from a Far Country\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e. There is no gaudiness in her poetry; instead, the reader is aware of a generosity of spirit which allows the poems subjects their own unbullied reality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGillian Clarke is a severe critic of her own poems. \u003cem\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e includes all that she wishes to preserve of her work to date.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"CARCANET PRESS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51185181688082,"sku":"9781857543353","price":30.39,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0508\/3093\/4173\/files\/9781857543353.jpg?v=1774734194","url":"https:\/\/bargainbooks.com.au\/products\/9781857543353","provider":"Bargain Books Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}